. infrastructures posing strategic interest of the public institutions and companies, the cyber attacks performed by cyber crime groups or the extremist cyber attacks initiated by hackers alter directly Romania's national security. 55. Terrorism is a persistent threat, having forms of manifestation very difficult to foresee and counter, including from the perspective of identification and de‐structuring the flows of recruitment and financing those activities. The national contingencies which take part in missions abroad are exposed to risks and threats generated by the actions of the terrorist forces, organizations and groups. The increasing fundamentalist propaganda, especially virtually, favors the appearance of new cases of radicalization or of implication in terrorist extremist actions. 56. The proliferation of the weapons of mass‐destruction proliferation and of the bearing vectors, as well as the traffic of dual‐use products, may alter national security in the context of a destabilization at the regional level. 57. The hostile informational actions, which trigger the development of some support points on national territory, especially with an influential purpose, may impede Romania's strategic projects and its decisions at the state level. 3.2. Risks 58. Regional instability limits Romania's ability to promote its strategic interests, especially those regarding supporting Moldova's European route, solving the frozen conflicts, ensuring energetic security, protecting the rights of the Romanian communities and of the economic activities performed in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Romania at the Black Sea. 59. The un‐fulfillment of Romania's development goals can be generated by the persistence of the economic difficulties, proliferation of the underground economy and of corruption, tax evasion, the insecurity of infrastructure, as well as by external factors such as the perpetuation of the development gaps at the European Union level and the low degree of resistance to the major issues on the external markets, especially in the financial‐banking area. 60. Risks of social nature persist on the background of some trends such as the demographic fall, the migration of the active population, the degradation of the environment factors, the shortcomings/deficiencies in the national health, education and social assistance systems, but also the distortions on the labor market. 61. Radicalization of the extremist entities present on Romania's national territory may occur in the context of the intensification of the extremist flows of ethnic or religious nature or of any other nature. 62. Border criminality from drugs, people, armament and goods smuggling, illegal migration to economic‐financial criminality is another phenomenon which might impact upon Romania's national security. 63. Illegal smuggling of conventional armament may derive from some state or non‐ state actors’ interest to perform such operations, targeting conflict areas or areas having a potential to turn into an armed conflict. 15